Quotes About Dedication

Will looked up at Garrison. Did you get some shots? Garrison held up a Canon with an impressive lens. Got 'em, boss.

The thing is, baby, you don't have long,' he said. 'We don't have long. Dancers are like dragonflies – in one day, dead in the water the next. So you just have to work, all the time, because if you don't love it, and if you don't want to do it so much that it's like breathing to you, then you might as well stop now.

I was just so interested in what I was doing I could hardly wait to get up in the morning and get at it. One of my friends, a geneticist, said I was a child, because only children can't wait to get up in the morning to get at what they want to do. - Dr. Barbara McClintock

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Punk is an attitude. Hardcore is a lifestyle. the first seeks to subvert society. The second aims to live outside of it.

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

I love her and that is the beginning and end of everything.

Makes sense, doesn't it?  They're investing a lot in their students.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Don't ever phone if you can possibly come yourself. Don't ever leave if you can stay.

Its nothing,' said Horace quietly, 'but if you can think of any nicer way of a man killing himself than taking a risk for you, why that's the way I want to die.

I've found my line- from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty- without this I am nothing.

I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to one's unwanted children. What a fate - to grow rotund and unseemly, to lose my self-love, to think in terms of milk, oatmeal, nurse, diapers. ...Dear dream children, how much more beautiful you are, dazzling little creatures who flutter (all dream children must flutter) on golden, golden wings.

In fact to write (This Side of Paradise) took three months; to conceive it-- three minutes; to collect the data in it-- all my life.

I broke a date for him. To-day I feel I'd break anything for him, including the ten commandments and my neck.

What little I've accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work, and I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked back - but said at the end of The Great Gatsby: 'I've found my line - from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty - without this I am nothing.

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.

I'm yours — you know it.

ToScottie March 11, 1939 p. 387- 388 And please do not leave good books half- finished, you spoil them for yourself...Don't be so lavish as to ruin masterpieces for yourself. There are not enough of them!

All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?

Mi objetivo en la vida es llegar a ser esa persona que mi perro cree que soy.